Example sentences of "and when i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again . |
| 2 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 3 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 4 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 5 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 6 | And when I said I was he held out a massive paw that gripped my hand as though in a vice . |
| 7 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 8 | And there was a stage board in the back and when I said , what 's that doing in there ? |
| 9 | It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was a big shock and when I said yes there were about 100 Australian tourists cheering and photographing us . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A director asked me if I was a gardener and when I said not , he said it was ostentatious . |
| 12 | And when I asked yo and when I said to her , you were in toilet she got up and she ran across there ! |
| 13 | and when I said that to Penny she said well that 's nice she said you 've got ta lot of , a lot of friends at home , I said no , I have n't got friends |
| 14 | Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were . |
| 15 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 16 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 17 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 18 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 19 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 20 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 21 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 22 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 23 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 24 | Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face , and when I looked down , I saw a very small human being , only fifteen centimetres tall . |
| 25 | There was a scraping , rattling sound and when I looked down I saw bones . |
| 26 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 27 | We finished our meal in silence , and when I looked out of the window , all I could see was darkness and snow . |
| 28 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 29 | He blinked , and when I looked again , his eyes were light blue , childlike in their innocence . |
| 30 | ‘ Ana screamed and when I looked round you were n't there at all . ’ |